educate me about chicken breast fillets please!

PotatoPotato

Sharon87 wrote: »

Well if you just wanted chicken breast

Asda smartprice 1kg frozen chicken breasts £4

In Sainsburys at the moment Valley Foods Frozen chicken 750g is £2.99

thats great thanks!
i've got 2 options now, you guys have given me good knowlege!
I HAVE BEEN EDUMACATED!
:money:

Gillyx

I tend to find all the frozen ones have so much water content its unbelievable.

I tend to buy fresh when they're on offer and then freeze. Morrisons were doing 4 largeish chicken breast fillets for £3.80 a few weeks ago

stephen77

Gillyx wrote: »

I tend to find all the frozen ones have so much water content its unbelievable.

I tend to buy fresh when they're on offer and then freeze. Morrisons were doing 4 largeish chicken breast fillets for £3.80 a few weeks ago

That can often be as the chicken was not frozen quick enough so big ice cells form which rupture cell walls etc. When defrosted the water is released.

Of course the chicken can be tumbled which would increase the water content of the chicken.

also adding water can make it more succulant as the product is not so dry after cooking. (okay cost reason are the main driver).

PasturesNew

Somewhere on MSE in the past week (possibly the takeaway secret thread, from memory), somebody said that they'd accidentally bought the Asda frozen Smart Price chicken breasts once - and found they were the best they'd ever tasted, so now those are the ones they always buy.

mysupermarket puts these at 39.9/100g. http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Frozen_Poultry/ASDA_Smartprice_Chicken_Breast_Fillets_1Kg.html - link gives you the details that say these are 82% chicken + water, salt, dextrose, di phosphates and tri phosphates.

Coopdivi

Gillby1 wrote: »

See Youtube!

Here's one which is pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAIzzRRtThg

The chef makes it look very easy but it's not difficult. Just make sure you use a decent sharp knife.

One thing the chef doesn't explain is that after he's cut the breasts off there's still a fair amount of meat remaining against the breastbone. You can cut this out although it may not come out in a whole chunk like the breasts, but if you're going to cube the meat for say a curry it won't matter anyway.

If you don't want the skin you can pull it off the bird with your hands, then trim it away with a knife or a pair of scissors, either before you fillet it or after.

andthethreebears

If it's for currys / stir fry / fajitas (and are going to be hidden in sauce) why not try quorn fillets? When they're on offer they work out to ~17p for a fillet when you can get a bag for £1!
They don't shrink and are very low fat!

(beige veggie I don't know a lOt about meat, but my mum always gets fresh chicken breats from Iceland when they're on offer. I'm sure she said they had the lowest water content of all supermarket chickens - not sure where she got that info tho!!)

PotatoPotato

Coopdivi wrote: »

Here's one which is pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAIzzRRtThg

The chef makes it look very easy but it's not difficult. Just make sure you use a decent sharp knife.

One thing the chef doesn't explain is that after he's cut the breasts off there's still a fair amount of meat remaining against the breastbone. You can cut this out although it may not come out in a whole chunk like the breasts, but if you're going to cube the meat for say a curry it won't matter anyway.

If you don't want the skin you can pull it off the bird with your hands, then trim it away with a knife or a pair of scissors, either before you fillet it or after.

boning a chicken looks exciting! :eek:
thanks for the vid :rotfl:

Sharon87

Forgot to add the water content in the Asda Smartprice and Valley foods is very good. They don't seem to be drowned in water. Unlike Tesco Value frozen chicken, bought these once, put them in the George Forman grill and they boiled!!!! the tray was full with water. Tesco value rubbish, Asda smartprice good.

maman

HappyMJ wrote: »

Get chicken, sharpen knife, cut off skin, cut chicken breast out. It is not hard just takes about 5 minutes of careful cutting. Cut off legs, cut off wings. If you just want the chicken breast then do that and chuck all the rest in the bin it will still be cheaper than buying overpriced small bits of breast at £6.90 per kg. Frozen chicken can be picked up for much less even at £1.40 per kg.

:eek::eek::eek:

anderson8

i always buy frozen chicken breasts. usually the Asda ones.
theyre really tasty!